Paz Errázuriz
Photographer
Born in 1944, Paz Errázuriz began her career as a photographer in the early 1980s, working for Apsi magazine, various foreign press agencies and the Vicaría de la Solidaridad in Chile.
She studied education, first in Cambridge, England, in 1966, and then at the Catholic University of Chile in 1972. Her training as a photographer was initially self-taught, but she went on to perfect her skills at the International Center of Photography in New York in 1993.
Paz Errázuriz is one of the founders of the Association of Independent Photographers (AFI), set up in the early 1980s.
Her photographic work is one of the most recognisable on the national scene. It consists of black and white photographs, mainly portraits, which explore marginality in different contexts: hospitals, suburbs, brothels and even the canals of the far south of the country.
Over the course of her artistic career, Paz Errázuriz has received several grants, including the Ansel Adams Prize awarded by the Chilean-North American Institute of Culture in 1995 and the National Plastic Arts Prize in 2017.
Films
An essential reflection on the role played by photography during wars.
